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be on your best behavior. this week, lou'seen thinking abt who's watching. re's author and educator lou heckler. >> on a trip to london, i ran across an interesting newspaper feature called on a typical day in london. it described how many how many of those black taxis would pass you, how much you would likely spend on parking and such. one statistic really got my attention: on an average day, you will be on camera 300 times. we're not talking on camera like the one i'm on right now, we're talking security cameras. then, just the other day, my wife and i were having breakfast out at one of those ubiquitous coffee places, a woman came by with one of the most unusual baby strollers i'd ever seen. i commented to her that it was really quite wonderful and before i could finish she blurted, i know you! you spoke at our conference last friday. it reminded me of a great piece of advice i got years ago when i an old friend said, just remember, you're always under your people are watching you like hawks every day to see if your actions match your words. it really doesn't matter if were being

hockey mom and pig, lipstick. >> and they would like to forget. >> education and what is the third one there? >> john: we take you behind the scenes. we'll show you what they don't like to talk about. >> the lying is okay in politics? winning the presidency. ♪ ♪ >> john: when it comes to winning the presidency, i'd like to think that the choice is about whose ideas are better but when you talk to people behind the scenes they talk about moments. >> there are a series of moments and that's what matters. >> john: remember the scream? howard dean led john kerry in early polls but then he tried to rally the troops. >> we're going to california, texas and new york. >> john: people in the room sounded like a normal rally, but because dean's microphone picked up only dean's voice the tv broadcast made him sound crazy. even images mean matter more than issues. this is said to have helped bill clinton. in 1980 republican primary george bush had momentum against ronald reagan until the debate. there was a moment where reagan looked strong. >> john: that moment helped change the campaign.

play with a stick. but if you take away early childhood education, slash k-through 12 funding, they won't go far. >> jennifer: that ad is airing in colorado, florida, ohio virginia, wisconsin. michelle do you think that that message is effective with parents? swing states? >> i think it's a very compelling ad. it will hit parents, women, children. it's going to hit white middle class voters who firmly believe and understand that the way to be prepared for a 21st century work force is through education. if you live in ohio, wisconsin, michigan, if you live in states where manufacturing jobs are disappearing, you know the way to find a job is education, and for that reason alone, it is a very, very compelling ad. >> jennifer: the nra has come out with a new ad. do you think that because of nra is using a bit of fear in its ads do you think it is going to work in 2012? >> no. i have been to more gun shows than probably any democrat in washington, d.c. and prosably most states around this country. >> jennifer: really? >> yeah, it's one of the things i do with my father from a very early

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. education -- >> his choice on how to compete with al gore was to have a prescription benefit for medicare. there is no mine versus yours. >> this whole idea of -- i roll my eyes when i see romney shifted to the middle. he has not in any substantive way. he is simply articulating moderate sounding policy outcomes that he knows sound pleasing to swing voters. swing voters want the debate on preexisting coverage. they want more teachers. he's articulating those kinds of goals but he has used to provide any way of getting there. the policy remains the same way on taxes. 20% across the board. nothing has really changed. he's just sort of taking this shortcut. and his opponent didn't call him on it. >> let's listen to this moment yet on "meet the press" which is about the tax issue and what's changed on it with romney. >> you've got to look carefully at how romney's structure, what he said is something that frankly true supply siders don't necessarily love. but it's good politics. he said i will close enough deductions that wealthy americans will not get a net tax cut. >> standing on the stage

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. >> where's the beef? >> senator, you're no kennedy. >> commerce, education, and the -- what'the third one there? oops. >> tonight we take you behind the scenes. >> see if they can do this flash. >> we'll show you what they don't like to talk about. >> so lying is okay in politics? >> what's behind winning the presidency? ♪ >> when it to say winning the presidency, i'd like to think that the choices about whose ideas are better, but when you talk to people behind the scenes they talk about moments. >> there are a series of moments. that's what matters. >> remember the scream? howard dean led john kerry in early polls, but then after a loss he tried to rally the troops. >> we're going to california, and texas, and new york! >> the room was noisy. and people in the room said, this sounded like a normal rally. >> and then we're going to washington, d.c. to take back the white house! yay! >> but because dean's microphone picked up only dn's voi, the tv broadcast made him sound crazy. >> yay! >> that unfairly may have killed his campaign. even images can matter more than issues. this video is

themselves. obviously, we need to continue that education for the individual users. i think on a national level, we are becoming also increasingly aware. but we need to look at where these attacks are coming from. secretary panetta was talking a lot about the nation's state-level attacks. i'm certainly aware we need to aggressively and proactively address those. we also need to take a look at some of the other avenues. we've seen what i call hackti s hacktivists that are less predictable and equally dangerous. then we have the cyber criminals whose entire existence rests on maintaining the infrastructure because that's what's financing their activities. >> julie, does it even matter though? i understand it's a blow to confidence, but are we so tied into the internet now that no matter what happens we're stuck? where's the real risk that americans lose confidence in the web to the point where they reduce their usage? >> you know, i don't think that's going to happen. >> so we're stuck, in other words, right? >> i think we're stuck. maybe that's not the right word to say. >> it's like livin

critical condition this morning. she became a taliban target by supporting education for girls and criticizing the militant group. the taliban says it will target her again. >>> the nationwide outbreak of deadly meningitis has spread to a dozen states. now health investigators are looking at two companies that made the tainted drug. danielle nottingham reports. >> reporter: a second massachusetts drugmaker is shutting down over tainted vials of steroid injections. ameridose llc is run by the same executives who operate the new england compounding center. the company that made the contaminated drugs. >> the request for a temporary suspension of operations will allow for an on sight investigation while continuing to safeguard public health. >> the centers for disease control says 13,000 doses of the drug were administered nationwide since may. 137 people have developed fungal meningitis, 12 have died. state officials want to know why the company was distributing the drugs at all outside massachusetts. governor duvall patrick says necc is only licensed to make drugs there. >> they wer

big bird he sees socialism, and in romney's head education is more of a brainwashing method. >> stephanie: interesting. >> caller: you have to say to -- your talking points and believe in this -- >> stephanie: listen, you got out of the tea party and katie holmes got out of that marriage congratulations to both of you [ applause ] >> caller: i am trying to get my friends out. >> stephanie: ah. >> caller: you didn't bring sup nancy pelosi. they hate her. and they love that girl -- mischel malkin. >> you can't carry on a serious conversation now. >> caller: i have to pretend i still hate democrats. the more education you get, and the moore democrats people talk to, they won't believe the lies. and it is just like my friends that are stuck in the compound. >> stephanie: in the compound. >> those are all lies from the pit of hell. >> oh yeah. there's that. >> the house committee. >> stephanie: hang on, i'm getting it. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> and he is the head of the committee on science. >> stephanie: yeah, you sometimes think it's an onion headline. brown respe

-timions, people who have been pushed from full time into part time. they're younger, less educated and unskilled so they for lower paying. >> so if you are working part time and you come off the unemployment roles that, goes into the unemployment rate. that's legitimate. >> that's an important thing to talk about and is reveal audio in the u6 labor thing. 14.7% unemployment when you include the so-called marge neal attached to the workforce. that's precisely the same number as the previous month. >> 14.7, when you say... the people who don't have full-time jobs -- >> don't have full-time jobs who arev giving up. >> what is more important than that, the household median income is down $5,000. because when you have rising gas price, rising health insurance prices, rising almost everything prices and your income's going down because there are not a lot of jobs and employers can say take it or leave it, i can replace you easily. that's the indicator. that's why i think the president's going to have trouble. >> i think you are exactly right. another number of people have not paid attention

today. let's play it. >> we believe the educational benefit of diversity are so important that they're worth fighting for all the way to the united states supreme court. our lawyers this morning effectively made the case to the justices that diversity, ethnic and otherwise, benefits all of the students on our campus. >> bill, has that not been proven in workplaces? >> absolutely. a business case for diversity spread like wildfire. mckenzie and other consulting firms shows that it helps the bottom lean for corporations and actually corporations and military and other organizations said, do not dry up the pipeline to the universities so they're actually in great support of race-based affirmative action. >> all right. thank you so much. we greatly appreciate your time. we'll see what happens as this moving forward. thank you so much. >> thanks so much. >>> the death of a nfl star and actor tops the look at stories around the news nation today. alex karras, a former detroit lions defensive tackle later became a tv and film star passed away today. movies included "paper lion," "blazing sadd

education, invest in high value additive research, to invest in energy or infrastructure. these are the problem areas that we have to face up to. you know, we spend twice as much as any other country in the world on health care. you know, health care is an enormous problem. it's growing at a much faster rate than gdp. second problem is defense. we spend more than the next 17 largest countries combined on defense. third we have a tax code that is inefficient, ineffective and globally anti-competitive. fourth, you know, it's social security. social security is $900 billion cash deficit -- cash negative over the next decade. we've got to face up to those four big issues. >> let me just be clear, though. the head of the imf, christine lagarde, was out the other day warning countries against too much austerity. >> right. >> also pointing out that countries who have done better are those who had a little bit less austerity. is there a danger with what you're proposing that it's taken too religiously up front -- >> that's why we said we ought to phase it in over a long period of time. look at

education for smartcredit.com. they want to encourage the reporting of on time utility payments. what is going on here? >> not only on time payments but all payment activity at all on utility bills. what this bill that was proposed in the house this week would do is clarify the fair credit reporting act so it could not be interpreted any way that would make it illegal for utility provider, public utility providers to report your transaction, monthly information like a credit card to the credit reporting agent. that is the hypothesis behind this bill. gerri: there could be a downside for people who pay their bills on time. what do you mean? >> this is the down side. if you tell a public utility to report information to credit reporting agency they become covered by the fair credit reporting act which means they have to employ reasonable procedures to assure maximum possible accuracy of the credit report which means new people, new symptoms -- systems and new expensive lawyers. what does that mean? the price is going to have to go up to subsidize which means we will all be paying water and

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now, thank you both very much. >>> coming up, education was a key part of the debate the other night but can you save our schools? we meet the man who is trying to do that. bars. hmm? i just wanted you to eat more fiber. chewy, oatie, gooeyness... and fraudulence. i'm in deep, babe. you certainly are. [ male announcer ] fiber one. boring. boring. [ jack ] after lauren broke up with me, i went to the citi private pass page and decided to be...not boring. that's how i met marilyn... giada... really good. yes! [ jack ] ...and alicia. ♪ this girl is on fire [ male announcer ] use any citi card to get the benefits of private pass. more concerts, more events, more experiences. [ jack ] hey, who's boring now? [ male announcer ] get more access with the citi card. [ crowd cheering, mouse clicks ] >>> it means that the teacher that i met in las vegas, wonderful young lady, who describes to me she's got 42 kids in her class. the first two weeks, she's got some of them sitting on the floor until finally, they get reassigned. they're using textbooks that are ten years old. >> when it comes to

rights to get an education and she's 14 years old shot in the head by the taliban and trying to silence women and young girls and she deserves the peace prize and i will see this, the euro-weenies who give out the nobel peace prize to the eu, it's not as appalling as when they gave it to yasser arafat and barack obama after being president for-- >> can i say this about that, eu getting the nobel peace prize is like praising your drug addicted kid for showing up for school every day, it's beside the point. the eu is about to go into a huge depression, everything is going i don't think, not right, they don't deserve a nobel peace prize. stuart: why did they give it to them. what's the motivation? i don't get it. >> if i could explain it i would. you went through the track record who they've given the prize to in the past. stuart: i want to go back to the 14-year-old pakistani girl. if anybody deserved it, that brave young woman. and do you know that the taliban have been dumping bodies around her parents' house as a warning to that girl. stop what you're doing. stop supporting education f

yourself up, juan. hang on. let me help educate out polls. >> yes, thanks. >> sean: the pew poll is using a democratic sample method that still out-samp lipping democrats by a margin higher than obama had in 2008, which nobody believes is going to happen! and still, romney's ahead. >> they are using the same methodology they were using all along. >> sean: but it's still phony. >> let me just tell you ---- >>> 9%. >> foreign policy, the voters trust obama more. and it's only rasmussen that has a lead anyway. >> sean: let me get david in. >> you look at virginia and ohio. >> sean: look at the lead i. michigan, pennsylvania, obama has the lead. >> sean: look at his lead among independents. it is massive. look at voter enthusiasm, in favor of republicans. massive. how big an impact does that have? >> that's a big difference i. before -- hold on, juan. i am going to get your son, who i understand is a republican, to tell you you have to let me talk. >> i thought he asked me, david. >> no. the independent -- we were told the independents were crucial here. now that romney is going way ahe

degree and that was considered too much education. she now working at a credit union and making $30,000 a year. she was making 45,000 at leviton. these are small margins. >> i know the magazine also took a look at which industries were hiring. where should people be focusing? >> there are actually surprisingly a lot of booming jobs in america. those jobs don't pay much. but in the top ten growing jobs, we have the biggest jobs like nurses and home health care workers and personal age aides because our aging population. those jobs pay $20,000, a year, not a lot, but the fastest growing job in america. we have carpentry and people in the construction trades. those jobs through 2020 are expected to boom and the reason for that is they shed about 50% of their jobs during the housing downturn and then we have other interesting professions that are growing that you wouldn't expect. biomedical engineers that also has to do with health care and those jobs pay a lot or even veterinvet ruinary technicians, people who work as assistants to vets. >> even in a downturn, the pets come first, that's f

nurse for about twenty years i decided that i need to further my education. my masters degree was done completely online and that gave me the freedom and ability to do my education while i raised my kids and worked full time. raising my kids as a single mom and having them see me get my education online and work full-time has given them the opportunity to see that they can do anything that they want to. i'm currently the hospital administrator for two public hospitals. we serve patients who might not otherwise get care. i teach an online nursing program. i feel that i'm giving back something to the nurses that are attempting to get their bachelors degree like i did. doing online education is something that i suggest to many, many people. [♪ theme music ♪] >> announcer: broadcasting across the nation, on your radio, and on current tv this is the "bill press show." >> bill: all eyes on lexington, kentucky. all democratic hopes pinned on joe biden. hey, hello, what do you say everybody? thursday october 11th. this is the "full court press," welcome, welcome to the program. good t

for educating girls. >>> and nearly two dozen people on a party boat in san francisco bay had a scare when the boat started sinking. the coast guard rescued 22 people on that craft after it struck a rock off of alcatraz and started taking on water. >> we were coming up on alcatraz. check it out. and all of a sudden, boom. like a big jolt. and the cost guard boats came in and got us off. >> nobody was injured in that incident. >>> and the soft drink industry is launching a last-ditch effort to try to stop a ban on big drinks in new york city from taking effect. the industry is suing, claiming the city board of health, don't have the authority to impose the ban on drinks larger than 16 ounces. the mayor calls the suit baseless. the rule is set to take effect this coming march. >>> and if you get a strange-looking $100 bill, there's a good chance it was stolen. the fbi says a large amount of these newly-designed bills, they won't say how many, were stolen from a plane in philadelphia. the bills have a sophisticated design to prevent counterfeiting. but they don't go into circulation unti

result, their students achieve at a higher level. let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. >>> let's move to the civil war in syria. there are estimates that more than 25,000, 30,000 people have now been killed. in march of last year president obama explained the military action taken in libya by saying it was in the national interest to go in and prevent further massacres from occurring there. >> it's darcht country. it is five times as large geographically. it has it's in a part of the world where you're not going to see whatever would come from that war. it would seep into a regional war. you are in a country that is heavily populated amidst the most dangerous area in the world, and, if, many of the, it blows up and the wrong people gain control, it's going to have impact on the entire region causing potentially regional wars. we are working hand in glove with the turks, with

on average, that is an educated guess. >> one of the most interesting aspects of this poll was the 18 point lead in the pew showed that romney had with women has evaporated. obama by comparison who had been joyously messianic as a speaker -- >> the nonverbal communication. if you watched that debate with the sound off it looked like a more compelling win for romney than if you read the transcript where obama was looking away, looked like his heart wasn't in it. that means if he gives a more spirited performance in the next two debates, he could regain some ground. there are really two questions. >> if he can win round the women, how significant is that to his chances of winning the election? >> if romney can? >> yes. >> sure. >> 18 point swing in one poll is huge. >> if we were to see that number confirmed by other poll, romney would be the favorite but it's not what we're seeing in the bulk of data. sometimes there can be a tendency to take a big headline number, when we're getting 15 or 20 polls released. if romney is doing that well among women, we will see the result confirmed

education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> for today's flashback, we turn our attention to 1996, when the presidential race was a choice between bill clinton and bob dole. 16 years ago, the incumbent president and his republican challenger met for their first debate. the showdown was in hartford, connecticut, and moderated by jim lehrer of pbs. it was also the year of a new block of voters, that was identified as jonathan alter explained to tom brokaw in the post-debate analysis. >> the swing voter this year goes by a new buzz word. they're called soccer moms. these are white women, living in the suburbs, some of them watch their kids play soccer. four years ago, george bush led bill clinton by ten percentage points, 15 in some polls, with this constituency. this year clinton is crushing dole in all the surveys of this group. it's a tremendous number of voters, white women living in the suburbs. they respond to a certain set of issues, gun control, education, medicare, because many of them are taking care of their elderly parents